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Tashkent and Kishinev theaters about low qualification of brought a new style in the classical dance – Neo-classic.
Chabukiani or did not have enough money to invite some He matched to one another elements of the Georgian
other maestro). Vakhtang Chabukiani visited the then choreography and classical dance and made their synthesis
Minister of Culture Otar Taktakishvili, who sympathized him, in a new way, within the modern ballet context. He intended
but despite the Minister’s great authority, failed to help him. to stage the Georgian ballets and also to bring to the ballet
It was for the first time that I saw physically weakened stage heroes of ancient dramaturgy and mythology. He
Vakhtang Chabukiani. Depression had deep trace on him. started to model visual choreographic images based on
He moved slowly and his characteristic and well-known music of the greatest classical and modern composers.
“aplomb” seemed to disappear from him… Chabukiani That was why he familiarized his students with this great
asked the Minister to intercede before Shevardnadze in music. They danced in the ballets staged on the music of I.
his leaving for Japan. Otar Taktakishvili always visited Stravinsky, A. Burk, K. Schonberg, S. Prokofiev, H. Knaifel,
Shevardnadze alone to discuss cases with him… This time J. S. Bach, I. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, P. Tchaikovsky, and
he asked me to accompany him. It should be mentioned the Georgian composers – G. Kancheli, S. Nasidze, V.
that at the official level no one said about Chabukiani’s Kakhidze, S. Tsintsadze. His students remember how
crime… After some diplomatic steps we tackled the main refined the maestro’s lessons were, how exactly he showed
topic. Shevardnadze’s face immediately changed and in a each move, how he explained in every detail the “subtext”
strict tone he said: “You know well that the accusation is of each move; he explained to them each pa, place and
not removed from Chabukiani yet!” ...We were astonished. importance put into the musical texture. The result of this
First Secretary of the Central Committee was officially was accurate, elegant and virtuoso moves in the dance of
informing the Minister of Culture and his first deputy about his students.
this terrible event... I don’t know what happened after this, Giorgi Aleksidze boldly and courageously allowed his
but Chabukiani received a permit to go to Japan… He, students to dance the parts to the most difficult music. He
certainly, did not stay there that was being strongly proved staged for the students of second and third class “The Plays
by the Security Service officers…” of Children” by one of the greatest XX century Russian
Now, let’s again return to the School. In 1973-1977 composers Igor Stravinsky. In the music of this composer is
the School was headed by S. Vekua, and in 1977 she simultaneously merged both aesthetic stylization of avant-
was replaced by Baram Baramidze, artistic director - Gogi garde creative association “Mir Iskustva” (“World of Art”) and
Alekidze. Vakhtang Chabukiani was invited as a consultant. aspiration for the Russian archaic, and is felt an apparent
influence of the music by Clod Debussy and Modest
Mussorgsky. In this music, which is not quite children’s
NEW WAVE – GIORGI ALEKSIDZE music, Stravinsky used the technique of dodecaphony
and it’s easy to imagine how difficult it would be for the
The period came in the Georgian art, when three children to understand such complicated music, and also
innovators and reformers conducted their activities to remember the choreographic outline. But Aleksidze, as
simultaneously – Robert Sturua in the dramatic theater, Gia a teacher, considered that the future students should get
56 Kancheli in music, Giorgi Aleksidze in ballet. Aleksidze is the used from the very beginning to dance to the melody of
first choreographer, who in the history of the Georgian ballet such music, which they would have to dance later on the